NHS reforms: survey of public opinion

In March 2011 the Nuffield Trust conducted a ’snapshot’ survey of health leaders to test their views and attitudes towards the Government's NHS reforms. While not a comprehensive, representative sample of views among policy-makers and expert opinion on the NHS, the findings outlined in our Snapshot survey of health leaders on the Government’s NHS reforms, provide a useful starting point for debate on the reform programme.

We supplemented this analysis, by commissioning Ipsos MORI to survey a representative sample of the public (1,000 people) in England, to explore their views on the reforms. This presentation illustrates the key findings of this survey which have also been written up in more detail in a Nuffield Trust media summary.

The online community Doctors.net.uk conducted two further surveys of their members in partnership with the Nuffield Trust to shed more light on GPs’ expectations of how consortia will work and the support they believe they will need.  Download the findings of the Doctors.net.uk and Nuffield Trust surveys, and view the key slides for the January 2011 and February 2011 polls.